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John Osborne
Fulham, London, England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against his own family, including his wives and children. Osborne was one of the first writers to address Britain's purpose in the post-imperial age. He was the first to question the point of the monarchy on a prominent public stage. During his peak (1956–1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Osborne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Movie Writer
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1995
England, My England
Movie Writer
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1993
The Entertainer
Movie Writer
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1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV show Self
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1989
Look Back in Anger
Movie Writer
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1985
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Movie Writer
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1985
Colonel Redl
Movie Screenplay
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1985
A Better Class of Person
Movie Narrator
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1981
Hedda Gabler
Movie Adaptation
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1981
Very Like a Whale
Movie Writer
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1980
Flash Gordon
Movie Arborian Priest
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1980
Look Back in Anger
Movie Writer
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1979
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Movie Writer
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1978
Tomorrow Never Comes
Movie Lyne
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1977
Supernatural
TV show Edward Manners
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1976
Almost a Vision
Movie Writer
More credits
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1974
The Gift of Friendship
Movie Writer
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1974
Luther
Movie Writer
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1974
Ms or Jill and Jack
Movie Writer
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1971
Get Carter
Movie Kinnear
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Self
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1971
The Hotel in Amsterdam
Movie Writer
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1970
First Love
Movie Maidanov
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1970
The Right Prospectus
Movie Writer
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Writer
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1968
Inadmissible Evidence
Movie Writer
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1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie Writer
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1968
Luther
Movie Writer
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1968
The Parachute
Movie Werner Roger
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1967
ITV Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1965
BBC Play of the Month
TV show Werner Roger
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Harry Steadman
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1963
Tom Jones
Movie Screenplay
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1961
A Sunday in September
Movie Self
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1960
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Movie Writer
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1960
The Entertainer
Movie Screenplay
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1959
Look Back in Anger
Movie Theatre Play
